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Letter of Sir Walter Scott to the Committee of Ladies.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14032
Content Description

On relief of the Irish peasantry at the time of the famine in Ireland.

Dates: 1822.

Letter of Sir Walter Scott to William Laidlaw.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14345
Scope and Contents

On family visits and a desire to see Laidlaw again soon.

Dates: 1827.

Letter of Thomas Coutts referring to a London visit by Sir Walter Scott, "our cousin the poet".

 File
Identifier: Acc.12490
Scope and Contents

Includes letter of Harriot Coutts.

Dates: 1821-1825.

Letter of Walter Scott, ? 1811.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12194
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns Scott`s memoir of John Leyden for the "Edinburgh Annual Register", includes a cover in Scott`s hand and a bond by Leyden, 1802.

Dates: 1802, ? 1811.

Letter of Walter Scott to Daniel Terry.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13755
Scope and Contents

A transcription of the letter has been included.

A copy of an engraving of a bust of Sir Walter Scott has also been included.

Dates: 1818.

Letter of Walter Scott to John Richardson.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13704
Scope and Contents

On a matter concerning the Court of Session.

Dates: 1830.

Letters, 1829-1833 and undated, of James Ballantyne to John Hughes.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11815
Scope and Contents

Letters of Ballantyne to Hughes concern printing and publishing and also the health of Ballantyne and Sir Walter Scott.

Includes:

six letters of Sir Walter Scott, 1822 and undated,

two letters of Walter Scott, WS, father of Sir Walter Scott, undated,

three letters of John A Ballantyne, 1837-1838.

Dates: 1822-1838 and undated.

Letters and documents to and concerning Sir Walter Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11878
Scope and Contents

Includes papers concerning the affairs of the Trust after 1826, including letters of Robert Cadell, James Ballantyne and John Gibson, papers on copyrights, the Magnum edition, the arbitration by Lord Newton, and a report by the Trustees to creditors, 1831. There are also earlier papers concerning plantations at Abbotsford and household records.

Dates: 1812-1831.

Letters of Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Macdonald.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.14459
Scope and Contents

On Scott's use of documents, transcripts, proofs, drawings and charters.

Dates: 1828-1831.

Letters, press-cuttings, printed catalogues and articles of and relating to Charles K N Ballantyne, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13342
Scope and Contents

Many of the letters relate Charles Ballantyne’s scholarly interests particularly Sir Walter Scott, Marc Raffalovich, John Gray and Aubrey Beardsley. As well as personal letters, some of the correspondence relates to requests to borrow paintings from the collection at the New Club, Edinburgh, the acquisition of which he had been in no small measure responsible for.

Dates: 1925-1984, undated.

Literary manuscripts and notes of William M Parker.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5893
Scope and Contents

Concering Sir Walter Scott, John Scott, and other subjects.

Dates: circa 1930-circa 1970.

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  • Names: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) X

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Letters. Correspondence. 109
Photocopies. 31
Correspondence. 21
Manuscripts. 12
Notes. 9
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Novels. 8
Copies. Derivative objects. 7
Abbotsford House (historic house). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. 4
Accounts. 4
Albums. 4
Research notes 4
Typescripts. 4
Bonds. Legal instruments. 3
Drawings. Visual works. 3
Facsimiles. Reproductions. 3
Illustrations. Layout features. 3
Poetry. 3
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 3
Sketches 3
Transcripts 3
Articles. 2
Books 2
Commissions. Permissions. 2
Dissertations. 2
Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 2
Engravings. Prints. 2
Indexes. Reference sources. 2
Legal documents. 2
Receipts. Financial records 2
Reports 2
Scotland. Europe - United Kingdom. Country. Longitude: -4.0000. Latitude: 57.0000. 2
Scripts. Documents 2
Watercolours. Paintings. 2
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Annotations. 1
Caricatures. 1
Certificates 1
Charters 1
Circulars. Fliers. 1
Declarations. 1
Drafts. Documents. 1
Dryburgh Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.6667. Latitude: 55.5667. 1
Envelopes. 1
Excerpts. 1
Fiction. 1
Forgeries. Derivative objects. 1
Fragments. 1
Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter). 1
Genealogies. 1
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 1
Histories. 1
India. Asia. Nation. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
Inscriptions. 1
Invitations. 1
Isle of Man. Europe - Isle of Man. Island. Longitude: -4.5000. Latitude: 54.2500. 1
Lake District. Europe - United Kingdom - England. General region. 1
London. Europe - United Kingdom - England - Greater London. Inhabited place. Longitude: -0.1667. Latitude: 51.5000. 1
Melrose Abbey. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Ruins. Longitude: -2.7500. Latitude: 55.6167. 1
Microfilms. 1
Orders. Records (documents). 1
Pamphlets. 1
Photographs. 1
Prompt books. Scripts. 1
Prose poems. 1
Publications. 1
Publishers and publishing. 1
Registers (lists) 1
Reviews. Document genre 1
Scrapbooks 1
Seals. Artifacts 1
Selkirk. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. County. 1
Songs. Musical compositions. 1
Translations. Documents. 1
Travel journals 1
Trossachs. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Stirling. General region. 1
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Language
English 171
French 1
German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Ballantyne, James (printer) 9
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 7
Ballantyne, John, publisher, 1774-1821 4
Cunningham, Allan, miscellaneous writer, 1784-1842 4
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 3
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Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 3
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 3
Edgeworth, Maria (novelist) 3
Erskine, Charles, of Shielfield, Sheriff Substitute for Selkirkshire, 1771-1825 3
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877 3
Gibson, John, WS (adm 1819), agent of Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1877: recipient 3
James Ballantyne and Co, Edinburgh, printers 3
Scott, Harriet, nee Bruhl, Lady Polwarth, 1772-1853 3
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 2
Ballantyne, Alexander Thomson, printer, 1776-1847 2
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 2
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet, known as 'Lord Byron') (1788-1824) 2
Curle, James, writer, Melrose, fl 1812-1826: recipient 2
Ellis, Frances Sterling, Walter Scott scholar, fl 1968-1998 2
Scott, Margaret Charlotte, wife of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford, née Carpenter, 1770-1826 2
Scott, Sir Walter, 2nd Baronet of Abbotsford, 1801-1847 2
Tilt, Charles, bookseller, London, 1797-1861 2
Adolphus, John Leycester, barrister and author, 1795-1862 1
Aitken, John, Editor of "Constable's Miscellany", 1793-1833: recipient 1
Anderson, James, author of "Sir Walter Scott and History", b 1918 1
Andrew, Elizabeth, lover of Robert Burns, poet, née Paton, fl 1786 1
Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Arnot, Hugo, of Balcormo, advocate, formerly Pollock, 1749-1786 1
Atherstone, Edwin, author, 1788-1872 1
Baillie, Joanna (playwright and poet) 1
Ballantyne, Charles K N, Secretary of the New Club, Edinburgh, 1903-1985: recipient 1
Ballantyne, John Alexander, son of James, printer, 1816-1861 1
Ballantyne, John, artist, 1815-1897 1
Ballantyne, Robert Michael, novelist, 1825-1894 1
Bannatyne Club, literary and scholarly society, Scotland 1
Barber, Stephen Nicolson, correspondent of Walter Scott, fl 1810: recipient 1
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 1st Baronet, playwright and novelist, 1860-1937 1
Beardsley, Aubrey, Illustrator and Author, 1872-1898 1
Beauclerk, Harriot, actress and banker, formerly Coutts, née Mellon, ? 1777-1837 1
Boston, Thomas, divine, the Elder, 1676-1732 1
Boswell, James, of Auchinleck, author, 1740–1795 1
Boswell, Sir Alexander, 1st Baronet, of Auchinleck, 1775-1822 1
Bridges, James, Writer to the Signet, d 1865: recipient 1
Brinkley, John, Bishop of Cloyne, c 1766-1835: recipient 1
British Broadcasting Corporation 1
Buchan, Peter, collector of ballads, 1790-1854 1
Buchanan, Hector Macdonald, of Ross and Drummikill, Writer to the Signet, Principal Clerk of Session, formerly Macdonald, d 1828 1
Cadell and Davies, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849: recipient 1
Campbell, Sir Ilay, 1st Baronet, of Succoth, Lord President of the Court of Session, 1734-1823: recipient 1
Campbell, Thomas (poet) 1
Canning, George (statesman) 1
Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV 1
Celakovský, František Ladislav, scholar, 1799-1852: recipient 1
Christie, Alexander, Interim Sheriff Depute of Berwickshire, fl 1813 1
Cockburn, Robert, wine merchant, fl 1813-1821: recipient 1
Conn, Stewart, poet, playwright and broadcaster, b 1936 1
Constable, Archibald (publisher) 1
Constable, Archibald, publisher, 1774-1827 1
Copleston, Edward, Bishop of Llandaff, 1776-1849: recipient 1
Corbett, Miss, correspondent of James Ballantyne, printer, fl 1825: recipient 1
Corson, James C, collector and bibliographer of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, 1905-1988 1
Coutts, Thomas, banker, 1735-1822 1
Coventry Sketching Club 1
Davidov, Denis Vasilevich, General, 1784-1839 1
Davidson, John, poet, 1857-1909 1
Dewar, Henry, physician, 1780-1823 1
Dickinson, John, wholesale stationer, 1782-1869: recipient 1
Douglas, David, bookseller, 1823-1916 1
Douglas, Jean (née Wedderburn-Colville, Countess of Selkirk) (d.1871) 1
Douglas, Lady Frances, 2nd wife of Archibald, 1st Baron Douglas of Douglas, née Scott, 1750-1817: recipient 1
Douglas, R. K., journalist, fl 1827: recipient 1
Drummond, Thomas Robert Hay-, 11th Earl of Kinnoull, 1785-1866: recipient 1
Duncan, Adam Haldane-, 2nd Earl of Camperdown, 1812-1867 1
Dundas, Sir Robert, 1st Baronet, of Beechwood, 1761-1836 1
Dunlop, Jane, wife of Andrew Vans, Bengal Medical Service, née Fergusson, fl 1826 1
Dunlop, William, Ensign, Bengal Army, 1807-1827: recipient 1
Elder, John, Depute Clerk of Session, fl 1814 1
Faed, John, painter, 1819-1902 1
Falconer, George Home, recipient of bond of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, fl 1819: recipient 1
Fanu, Alicia Le, novelist and poet, b 1791: recipient 1
FitzPatrick, William John (Irish biographer) 1
French, Gilbert James, biographer, 1804-1866: collector 1
Gillies, Robert Pearse, of Balmakewan, advocate, 1788-1858 1
Gilly , William Stephen (Canon of Durham) 1
Gordon, George Huntly, amanuensis to Sir Walter Scott, 1796-1868 1
Gourgaud, Gaspard, soldier, 1783-1852 1
Gray, John Henry (Canon of St Peter's, Edinburgh, and author) 1
Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Knight, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 1866-1960 1
Hamilton, Lady Jane Dalrymple, daughter of Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan, née Duncan, c 1780-1852: recipient 1
Hamilton, Thomas, miscellaneous writer, 1789-1842 1
Hartstonge, Matthew Weld, fl 1811-1827 (Author of 'Marion of Drymnagh') 1
Harvey, Ada Margaret Leech, wife of Charles Harvey, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Bristol, fl.1882-1891: author 1
Harvey, Charles Octavius (wine and spirit merchant, Bristol) 1
Hay, James, recipient of bond of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, fl 1819: recipient 1
Hayman, Anne, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline, fl 1806-1817: recipient 1
Hogg, James, poet and novelist, 1770-1835 1
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, d 1835: recipient 1
Home, Joseph, of Ninewells, d 1832: recipient 1
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